B. Research Setting
This research was conducted in March and April 2013. The data collecting was done twice. It was because the researcher needed 95 participants to fulfill the
questionnaires for this research. The first data collecting was carried out on the 13
th
March 2013 at 10 a.m. in the Kadarman Room of Sanata Dharma University. It was after the Service Program Design class, when half of the eighth semester
English Language Education Study Program students gathered after they finished their class. There were 75 students participating in this research. It took around 30
minutes for the researcher and the participants to conduct this process. The second data gathering was on the 14
th
April 2013 in the student hall of Sanata Dharma University. The researcher started to distribute the questionnaires
at 8 a.m. and finished at 12 p.m. There were 20 students participating in the second data gathering. After that, the researcher selected the sufficient data
provided by the participants. Some of the data were not used because the participants either fulfilled it incompletely or had out of context answer. At the
end, there were 80 questionnaires chosen to be analyzed in this research.
C. Research Participants
The participants for this research were the eighth semester students of the English Language Education Study Program in Sanata Dharma University on the
academic year 20132014. There were 95 participants in this research who were asked to fulfill the questionnaires given by the researcher. The reason why the
researcher chose 95 participants was to provide additional data, from the target number 80 participants, just in case if there were incomplete questionnaires which
could not be counted. The eighth semester students were chosen because they represented the English Language Education Study Program students who were
being prepared to graduate and were almost ready to face the real world of work fields or higher level of education. Since they would be fresh-graduate bachelors
from English department, later on, these students have big chances to deal with English in their work fields. Dealing with English in their daily lives or works
needs strong wide knowledge about English, included how to request in English. This particular linguistic group was also chosen because of their availability and
advanced level of the target language, that is English.
D. Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
The researcher used questionnaire as the instrument. Richards, Platt and Platt 1992 define questionnaire as a set of questions on a topic or group of topics
designed to be answered by a respondent. Specifically, the type of questionnaire was open form questionnaire, where the participants do not have limited choices in
giving the answers. Cohen et al 2000 state that the larger the size of the sample, the more structured, close and numerical the questionnaire may have to be.
Specifically, the questionnaires were developed adapting the discourse completion test by Blum-Kulka 1982. The use of written questionnaires for the collection of
the data does not only present practical advantages from a methodological point of
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